Yes, back to painting… Working on two large paintings… both 36″ X 36″ for a special show that is coming up in the near future. Details to be announced soon.

It will be exciting and I’m thrilled so check back soon for the details.

These two paintings are a spin-off of the martini paintings (at least as far as color selection) and right now the Names for the paintings are “Storm Power” and “Break Out”.

I have to work quickly with these type of paintings because they are based on emotion and when there is a change in the emotion there will be a change in the style of the painting. Often a painting will have to get a serious makeover if I can’t regain the emotion of the start of the painting. I never know just where these painting will take me. It is always exciting!

For your review… It was interesting the first painting took a while to design and took a lot of thought once I felt like I had it structured the way I wanted. But once on the canvas I had to rethink the design. Fortunately, it was easy once I had a thought that was comfortable. Actually painting on the canvas went smoothly.

Josh says the first one reminders him of a quiet bar in Italy. The other two remind him more of something in South Beach. He should know.

So I painted and tried to make some progress on finishing up all the paintings I’m behind on.

These went very well.. but the two new ones need more work. Since my work is based on emotion so often if I’m doing two paintings of a similar subject I will work on them at the same time so the colors and brush strokes follow the same shades and strokes.